Introduction to Special Relativity

by James H. Smith

Book Overview

By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see that the inconsistencies were concerned not merely with mechanics and electromagnetism, but with our most elementary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 048668895X
• ISBN13: 9780486688954
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"